Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: She can bring blight to a nations crops or make a woman barren.

• leave: But the evidence found on Mars suggests that this is not the first time we have left a planet barren.

Modifies a noun

• wasteland: The barren icy wasteland slowly warmed to become thick woodland.

• brome: In grassland, cutting should be done early enough to prevent barren brome seeding.

• cage: The barren cages at Darley Oak provide them with nothing to live for.

• desert: In a country where much of the land is barren desert, water is a precious natural resource.

• wilderness: On the 4 th day, you will set off across the barren wilderness to complete a 45 - 50 mile stage.

• hillside: Passing through rocky, barren hillsides we later took another short break.

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: Born to a seemingly barren women, Joseph's parents think he is a'miracle child ' sent by God for a special purpose.

• utterly: This near darkness, these utterly barren, sterile conditions is their home for over a month - about one-fifth of their lives.

• rather: Further funding was found to turn the rather barren courtyard into a welcoming site.

• otherwise: From the beginning of recorded history, the River Nile has been a blessing in an otherwise barren, inhospitable world.

• apparently: The apparently barren, forsaken wife will bear miraculously, as Sarah did ( Is.

• fairly: This village is three kilometers from the border with Mali, and has a fairly barren, Saharan aspect.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: Sandy, shingle and gravel shores occur on more exposed shores and may appear barren.

• remain: The land is heavily mined, and with winter setting in the fields remain barren.

• become: Even tho the scene had become more barren, he was still getting regular bookings through out the UK and Europe.

• look: Afghanistan, a country troubled with conflict and drought, looks barren in recent news footage.

• consider: Aries, Sagittarius and Aquarius are also considered rather barren.

• leave: MULDER: During my investigation into your illness I found out the reason why you were left barren.